Month: November 2007

If you by any chance would like to use the excellent python shell IPython as an embed shell on an application or virtual terminal, you can instantiate it using the IPShellEmbed class provided by IPython. Let’s say that your environment doesn’t like IPython default color scheme and you need to start it without colors (same as doing ipython -colors NoColor). You can use an embed shell in your code the following way:

Today is a national holiday in Brazil. Well, I do agree that we have way too many holidays 🙂

Anyway, I took the day to organize some stuff at home, and managing personal stuff, like e-mail and social networking. And, while I write this, I’m comfortably placed in my living room, watching Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2. Ah, life…

Earlier I was walking across the city downtown. I like to exercise and think a little about life. What an amazing year it’s been so far. Expect more articles to come about technical subjects and other stuff [1].

[1] I’m not particularly fond of talking about my life, but sometimes I’ll get into it…

Ever made that commit that messed up your repository and spent some time wondering how to undo, or revert a bad commit? In subversion you really can’t go back a revision, but you can merge your copy with the previous repository version and then commit the changes to correct your mistakes:

UPDATE: Julian found a ‘typo’ on this post. Corrected. Thanks Julian!
UPDATE 2: I found a horrible typo on one of my comments. Phew… 😛 Anyway, I am glad that this post is helping people to resolve their problems 😉